Tag Archives: Google

They say a smile is worth a thousand words… but how about a billon bucks? Facebook seems to think so, as its recent acquisition of popular photography app, Instagram, proves there’s ‘cheese’ when it comes to saying ‘cheese’. News broke yesterday that Facebook is buying the photo sharing service Instagram, for a tidy sum of […]

I don’t know about you, but, just occasionally when I tell people what I do for a living, I get a reaction that can be summed up by the following: Pah! Load of cobblers; lies, lunches, and so on. Some will be sufficiently unchivalrous as to articulate this view. A few others will content themselves with looking […]

There’s that old saying that you should never meet your heroes. We’ve built these people up in our own minds to be so wonderful that actually coming face-to-face with them could never meet our expectations. Let’s face it: most of us are probably never going to meet those celebrities and public figures we really look […]

The robotic hand of science fiction crawled its way into reality a long time ago. With massive advances in technology being made each day, I can’t help wondering just how far ‘the machines’ are going to infiltrate our lives. My train of thought was prompted by Google’s announcement on Monday that it had launched an […]